Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...town are laid out in the open, and a surprising number of residents show up to deal with them. Many towns across the country have people interested in politics, but nowhere do they have more chance to affect the bureaucratic process, albeit through a cranky microphone on a basketball court, than in the villages of New England...
Grendel's Den, a restaurant on Boylston St., has filed suit in Federal District Court against the Cambridge Licensing Commission and the Massachusetts Alcoholic Beverages Commission charging that the state law which allows churches to deny liquor licenses to nearby establishments is unconstitutional...
Theodore Finnegan, executive secretary of the Alcoholic Beverages Commission, said yesterday the Massachusetts Supreme Court has upheld the 500-ft. rule in two recent decisions...
...case is still in the "discovery stage," in which lawyers for each side present evidence and contest the other side's arguments before the Court rules...
...Harvard's stands influence our whole society. Justice Lewis Powell's majority opinion in the Bakke case, for instance, hinged on Harvard's friend-of-the-court brief. The Cambridge-Washington shuttle, institutionalized during President Kennedy's administration, shapes public policy to aid in education, tax rules on charitable giving, and myriad other areas...